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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some years he has been a sort of press agent for the gas and electric people. . . . According to Charlie they [the Insull group] expect to round up fifty or sixty of the biggest papers. . . ." Mr. Grozier said he thought Mr. O'Malley had been "talking through his hat," and anyway his Post was not for sale...
...normal college student to know that that is a short way of saying "the gloom is thick enough to cut with a knife." And yet, on the opposite end of the scale, it would be doing Farrell an injustice to declare that his optimism is of the Pollyana sort. Mingle with the athletes and you will understand what I mean...
...group was completely satisfied with the House bill. The schedules on tobacco, wines and spirits alone escaped some sort of alteration by the committee. Out of the 626 paragraphs in the 1922 Tariff Law which this measure amends and replaces, 233 were changed. President Hoover's insistence upon "limited" tariff revision produced shifts in about one-third of the rates, practically all of them upwards. In the chemical schedule, for instance, there were 39 changes?33 up, six down...
...Sophomore class crew rage was of quite another sort. Yale challenged nowhere but in the first half mile, after which the Ell oarsmen dropped back steadily, finishing five and half lengths in the van of the Crimson eight, which covered the mile and three quarters in 9 minutes 31 seconds...
...protestations of each party, an exchange of glances would have convinced either side of the truth of this now debatable proposition without further argument. Yet now they are found, the natural enemies to each other not only discussing a subject of mutual concern, but teaming together in a sort of mixed doubles arrangement wholly without parallel in public except on the stage...